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Real Madrid got into a two-word nightmare for a moment: Europa League. That is the cloud that flew over the Santiago Bernabéu for a long time, a threat in the form of a second continental competition and the logical guasa for its enemies. He limited the damage by tracing a 0-2 and getting a point at home that gives him time to still track the qualification for the round of 16. Of course, no margin for error now. A bad step and will end in February playing with some rival from Belarus. [Narration and statistics: 2-2]

There is no peace for Madrid, there is no rest for this team that tries to keep alive the flame of what it was while looking for new references. His problem is that the substitute of Cristiano does not finish appearing and those who sent in the Champions League fiercely today tremble badly. For example, Luka Modric, melted in the action of the second goal of Bruges: loss in the worst possible place and free lane to Bonaventure, a young Nigerian striker who made in just 20 minutes a double almost without wanting. His two shots were more typical of a Sunday pachanga than the European Cup but they were enough to put the king of the competition in check.

In the first one he pushed her to the edge of the offside (he was validated with delay by the VAR) in a counter where Carvajal and Courtois were not in place. The boy stumbled at the time of hitting the ball, with the fortune that it went to the other foot. Goal. In the second, he was so nervous in the race alone against the Real Madrid goal that he almost fell on the floor. He held on and at the last moment he could lift the ball. Goal, 0-2 and the Bernabéu in panic at a result as unexpected as dangerous. It is not remembered the last time that Madrid really suffered in the group stage to qualify (maybe that afternoon in Rosenborg, in the previous century), a scene made flesh yesterday suddenly with those blows of the Bruges, rival with the aroma of nights eighties comeback. There was no other left for Madrid not to start, on October 1, to give an account, tremble thinking about that PSG of Mbappé and Neymar (now yes) that has to come to Chamartín and in the forced triumph outings in scenarios that do not invite to relax, such as Istanbul and Bruges. That or the Europa League.

Madrid got into a fat mess because of its recovered defensive fragility. The old champion compliments the compliments. A week of applause to his defensive rigor resulted in yesterday's fair, between nerves, bad placement and a goalkeeper who does not know if he is losing his figurine halo because of his teammates or a real downturn due to the weight of the White T-shirt.

Madrid accumulated chances to score (Kroos, several), but still, and that is an already chronic evil, with many problems before the goal. Hazard, the great signing of the summer, tried it like never before, feints it goes, dribbles come, without giving with the ideal brooch to the play. He had it at the beginning of the second part, already touched to rebuke, with the Bernabéu living each attack as if it were the 85th minute, and the Bruges crouched waiting for the final blow. Zidane threw Marcelo and Areola, without it being clear about Courtois. Stomach problems leaked from the locker room. Another setback for the coach, who on a crooked day was forced to spend a change in the goal.

Everything was already an agony for whites. Ramos scored through the VAR, when it seemed that he was offside, and the Bernabéu went into European night mode, in vilo with each exit of the Bruges, standing with each own arrival. Nice duel, with the lion of the tournament on the canvas. With the Bruges already with 10, Casemiro tied in another header, without preventing his from leaving with the scare in the body.

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